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Saturday November 14, 2009

Winternationals!

Filed under: Cars,Cool Stuff — don @ 10:22 am

Heading out soon. If I remember I’ll post some photos.

I remembered.

Here’s some video I took. It’s so amazing to me how fast these pro category vehicles go. Here’s a couple of Pro Stock motorcycles. They typically run low 7 seconds to high 6 seconds.

And here’s a couple of Pro Stock cars. These run in the mid to high 6 seconds.

A couple of Alcohol Funny cars. These run in the mid 5 seconds.

And finally a couple of Top Fuel Funny Cars. These run 1000 ft in around 4 seconds.

The Top Fuel cars used to run a whole quarter mile but because of an accident that killed a driver last year they backed off to 1000 ft. They still hit over 300 MPH. Yesterday we saw the fastest 1000 ft run ever for a Top Fuel dragster at 321 MPH in 3.8 seconds. They could probably improve on that today. These cars are the fastest accelerating vehicles in the world. Here’s some interesting facts about them.

Wednesday April 22, 2009

Bees!

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Life,Personal,Quads — don @ 3:50 pm

We had bees! We actually still have them but they should be gone later tonight.

A few weeks ago we noticed a few bees buzzing around an old wooden box we had out back. I went over and opened it to look inside and didn’t see anything. Then about a week ago Ann and Jenny saw some of them buzzing around near the same box but this time there were a lot. Now we must take an intermission.

While growing up in Tucson and going to Flowing Wells I had a friend named Roger Taylor. He was with me from Kindergarten on up and graduated with me but I hadn’t seen him since then. A few weeks ago I learned of a web site that is getting my class together for a reunion later this year. On that site was a map that shows where everyone is. Roger showed up as being in the San Fernando Valley not far from me. I happened to exchange some messages with Lynette McGee who is still in touch with Roger and Mike Keller, another school mate. They got a message to Roger to contact me so he did and we met for lunch. I found out he is also interested in riding quads so I invited him to Pismo over this last weekend. At that time I found out he was also a beekeeper. Now back to the bee story.

When we got back from Pismo we decided he should come and get the bees so today he did. I learned some interesting things and got some great pics. Here’s one and the rest are in my gallery.

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Thursday April 16, 2009

Go Ashton!

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Funny,Geek — don @ 2:34 am

It will probably be over by the time you read this but today it’s been kind of interesting. Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who gets to 1 million Twitter followers first. It’s been on Yahoo and there is even a site that is updating it live. I’m pulling for Ashton.

Thursday March 12, 2009

My New Avatar

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek,Politics — don @ 10:44 pm

I use an avatar on all the forums I post on. Here’s the one I’m currently using.

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Tuesday February 24, 2009

Miracle Labs

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek — don @ 9:13 pm

As some of you know I’ve been involved with a game called Counter-Strike and more specifically a plugin for that game called the Eventscripts Plugin. Basically the plugin allows people to change how the game acts depending on “events” and stuff happening.

My point is not about the plugin but about the guy who wrote it. His name is Mattie and he is a good friend of mine. I have become his friend and vice versa because of my participation in his Eventscript forum but in the past few years he has been doing some really cool and fun stuff on the web.

Enter Miracle Labs. That is what he calls his “company”. It consist of Mattie, a couple of his friends(Glenn and Ted), and his wife Helen. So far they have created several interesting and useful web sites.

The first one I knew about is called Bug.gd. That is a site that you can search to see if anyone else has seen a particular error or problem you’ve run into. The interesting part is it will optionally send you an email a few days after your visit if it didn’t help to see if you solved the problem.

Another is called ri.ms. It is a site similar to tinyurl.com that will shrink a url. It’s very useful for people who use Twitter because you only get 140 letter per post.

Their latest foray is called YumBunny. This is a dating/meeting site with a twist. It shows 2 people and asks if they look good together. You click Yes, maybe, or No. I’m still a little unclear on how it tells people they might match up but hopefully it takes off.

These are all intersting “Experiments” by Miracle Labs. I hope they do well. Below is the YumBunny thing.

Sunday January 18, 2009

Out on a Limb

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Life — don @ 1:05 pm

Ok, I’m gonna make a bold prediction about who’s going to win American Idol this year. I predict it will be Casey Carlson. This girl is not only drop dead gorgeous but she can sing too. I’ve got a link to her Fanclub Website over in the sidebar.

Sunday November 30, 2008

Desert Bus for Hope

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek — don @ 12:49 pm

Here’s a very stange but interesting link to something going on this Thanksgiving weekend.

This is put on by an Internet group called LoadingReadyRun.com. They are a group of kids in Victoria BC that make videos that they hope will become viral. Some do, some don’t but this weekend they are playing a game called Desert Bus. They are raising money for a charity called Childs Play which helps kids somehow.

Desert Bus is a game by Penn & Teller that was never actually sold but somehow got onto the internet. It consists of driving an empty school bus from Tucson to Las Vegas at 45 MPH in real time. There are no cars on the road and no real scenery except for an occasional tree and supposedly a bug splats on the windshield at about hour 5. If you make it to Las Vegas you earn a point and have to decide if you are going to drive back to try to earn another point. I guess you can do this as long as you want. If the bus goes off the road and crashes it gets towed back to Tucson in real time and you can start all over.

At any rate it’s interesting to watch the feeds and see sleep deprived kids doing silly things.

Sunday November 9, 2008

She said they had 2.7 so….

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek — don @ 2:45 pm

Donna told me they were up to WordPress 2.7 beta so since I love the new stuff I upgraded. I like the Dashboard a lot more than the 2.5/6 versions.

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